New alumni publications

HMC alumni have been busy over the past year or so – and we have a number of new publications by HMC alumni to report, as well as a re-issue of a previously published work and an online exhibition. 

This year

Erin Beeghly (2006, BA PPE), who is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, released What’s Wrong with Stereotyping in June. Published by Oxford University Press, the new book attempts to answer the question: when and why is it wrong to stereotype?  

In August, Tax Journal published a commentary by Phillipe Gamito (2018, MSc Taxation) on a judgement from the Upper Tribunal in the JPMorgan case.  

Next, a 2008 book by Emma Campbell Webster (2003, BA English Language and Literature), You Are Elizabeth Bennet, Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, was reissued by Faber and Faber on 9 October to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth. The book gives readers the opportunity to rewrite one of the most popular English novels of all time by making their own decisions.

Also in October, Wei Jian Chan (2015, BA Jurisprudence; 2016, BCL) released his first book, Journey to the West, a photographic documentary of his journey from Singapore to the UK, evoking the sense of dislocation and uncertainty he felt over this period and his personal growth. The book was launched at an event at London's Aperture Gallery on 24-25 October.

Finally, Katie Glover (2023, MSt Historical Studies), a former College Sawyer Prize winner, has produced a virtual exhibition that explores Aotearoa New Zealand's social history through the governesses who lived during the Victorian era, examining how notions of social class were challenged and redefined in a colonial context.

Christie George, the author of "The Emergency Was Curiosity"

Last year

In July last year Erik Danemar (2003, BA Economics and Management) published The Dystopian Utopia (Compassiviste). Set in 2084, the novel explores how humanity chooses withdrawal over cooperation in the face of existential threats. 

Last year also saw the release of The Emergency Was Curiosity by Christie George (2008, MBA), an illustrated “book report” and pandemic archive inspired by Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing.

Fiona Sampson (1989, BA PPE) co-authored another book released last year: Collaborative Poetry Translation: Processes, Priorities and Relationships in the Poettrio Method (Routledge).

Your news

Have you recently published a book or have any other news you’d like to share? 

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